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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED BEECH X-FRAME STOOL
Lot 6

A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED BEECH X-FRAME STOOL

CIRCA 1810-20

Closed23 May 2013

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GBP 3,500

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED BEECH X-FRAME STOOL
CIRCA 1810-20
The caned seat with scrolled ends joined by spiral-turned rails and centred by an anthemion clasp above scrolled legs with turned stretchers, with remains of a depository label, restorations, originally decorated
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep

Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 1996, lot 243.

Specialist note

Messrs. Morgan and Sanders of Trafalgar House, Catherine Street, popularised this design through their illustration of a related stool in R. Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, London, 1809 (see P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p.39).